Total Crime Rate
210.5 per 1,000
All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025Auden Way area has the 13th highest crime rate of 64 local areas in Buckland , and the 31st highest crime rate of 365 local areas in Dover .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Auden Way (CT17 0WN) in the last 12 months was 210.5 per 1,000 residents and was 105.5% higher than the Buckland average (102.4 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 68 offences recorded. The least common crime was Burglary with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Bicycle theft ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Other crime ( -42.9% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 75 (≈ 136.1 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 7.1% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -22.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Auden Way (CT17 0WN), the main crime hotspot is near Winchelsea Road. Police recorded 52 crimes here, including 25 violent or public-order offences. All these locations are within roughly 0.3 miles.
View Crime In Buckland| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Tower Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | High Meadow | — |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Tower Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | High Meadow | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Devonshire Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Devonshire Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Burglary | Winchelsea Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Tower Hamlets Street | — |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | High Meadow | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | High Meadow | — |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | South Road | — |
| Sep 2025 | Burglary | Winchelsea Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Curzon Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Curzon Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Possession of weapons | Curzon Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | West Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Tower Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Tower Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | South Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | South Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Tower Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Burglary | Douglas Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Douglas Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | The Abbots | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Lowther Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other crime | Auden Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Auden Way | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Douglas Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Astor Avenue | — |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Wyndham Road | — |
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